Lyle has been sober 26 years since, while serving as Captain of a commercial airline crew, a flying while intoxicated incident on March 8,1990 that made the national news, rocked his life and catapulted him into recovery.
A Comanche by birth, Lyle's career was long and distinguished both as a Marine and commercial pilot.
The story of how he returned to the pilot's seat of a 747 before retiring from that same airline is filled with miraculous efforts of friends, lawyers, judges and the President of the airline risking their own reputations to help him restore his.
(1 hr 9 min) (15.9 MB) (id#1321)
